Red to Black by Alex Dryden

“Red to Black has more in common with the elegantly paced books of John le Carré than it does with Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels. But readers who appreciate a healthy dose of real-world worries in their spy novels won’t complain.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch

Gorky Park for the Putin era, Red To Black by Alex Dryden could have been ripped from recent headlines. At once a spy thriller, a love story, and a chilling look at a dangerously resurgent superpower, it is a masterful work that Stephen Fry calls, “Brilliant and unforgettable….Nothing short of miraculous.” Welcome to the New Russia.

Alex Dryden is a writer and journalist with many years experience in security matters. When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, Dryden watched the statues of Lenin fall across the former Soviet Union. Since then he has charted the false dawn of democracy in Russia as the country morphed into the world's most powerful secret state-and his insider's view has informed all of his novels. The Blind Spy is the third in the Anna Resnikov series.

Unrated Critic Reviews for Red to Black

Kirkus Reviews

Over the next few years, at first with Anna’s quiet support and eventually with her active connivance, Finn unravels a convoluted plan hatched decades earlier to launder “black money” through Luxembourg, Russia’s client states and elsewhere, and to deploy it in ways that could shift the world’s b...

BC Books

BC Books

Finn and Anna find themselves in a vertiginous game of cat and mouse with each other, with their overseers, and against the fatal criminal world of black markets filled with industrial giants and cutthroat government operatives.

Book Reporter

We are informed that Alex Dryden, the author of RED TO BLACK, is
a pseudonym for a British journalist and writer who has watched and
chronicled the transformations of the Russian Empire for over two
decades.

Reviewing the Evidence

Although Alex Dryden has created a spy thriller with a heart-racing plot and sizzling romance, the real reason to read this novel is to understand just what post-Cold War Russian politics are all about.